@thoughtorgan Your impossible arpeggios sent me into a rabbit hole of thought about musical impossibility. I remember sharing with you my view that the voice is probably the instrument of greatest possibility. I was thinking that it lacks the extra level of interface between...

...thought and outcome. But then it’s not 1) polyphonic 2) capable of producing the full range that we can hear 3) necessarily true that you can produce any note within the range, certainly since microtones are theoretically continuous, not discrete.

Then examining point 2, what can we hear? There are notes outside of what we can hear and this isn’t consistent from person to person.

In terms of instruments, many use discrete notes. Fretless stringed instruments being a notable exception. And playing them shows up their physical limitations (can’t play more than six notes in a guitar chord) and the body’s (can’t hit more than 4 drums at once).

It reminded me of the quest to find the smallest particle in physics, and the absolute limit of the size of the universe before (if) it starts to collapse in on itself.

Not really similar at all, just the infinite/infinitesimal physical/theoretic link I guess. And the processing power required when the mind can’t contain the beast any longer. So the baton of possibility is passed from human to machine.

And Haiku Salut have passed that baton from human concept to machine execution. I just kind of like that idea that there’s a kind of playing field of limits to human music and if you want to knock it out the park, there’s an extended playing field that machines can use.